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The soaring, light-filled quire in Rochester Cathedral has witnessed centuries of worship.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

The queen will be buried at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which is next to the quire of the main St George's Chapel.

From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2022

But the Bengals are quire charitable to opposing QBs, being picked apart at a 121.0 rating that is better than only Kansas City’s 121.4.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

No energy for a quire of paper to be scrawled across.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2020

I am at the end of this book; there are no further leaves to write upon, but the stubs of that quire I tore out to instruct my friends in writing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

To duplicate the U.N. talks by per sonal visits to all the capitals of the statesmen he was seeing would have re quired a three-month, globe-girdling tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unwrapping of the old young body, a most delicate operation, re- quired seven days.

From Time Magazine Archive

In very many cases the whole of the nominal value of a share is not called up, i.e., is not re- quired to be immediately paid.

From Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein by Cotton, William

"Your husband was in business?" gently in quired Mrs. Bertram.

From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl

He set down his barrow, and, putting upon himself the refined aspect that a conversation with a lady re- quired, spoke to Bathsheba over the gate.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

I saw the 'potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

From Poems by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

And the sound of the quiring Of all these as one, Desired and desiring Till dawn's will be done, Fills full with delight of them heaven till it burns as the heart of the sun.

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The windows, with their fleeting, flickering fires, The height and spread of frontage shining sheer, The quiring signs, the rejoicing roofs and spires - 'Tis El Dorado—El Dorado plain, The Golden City!

From Poems by Henley, William Ernest

There's not the meanest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims; Such harmony is in immortal souls.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward